Mike and Tim have been involved in Executive and Team Coaching since 2003. They recognised that in the coaching market there is a gap in relation to High performance team models and development. They set out to answer the question– Is there any way to create a model that would be highly effective at developing high performance teams. The iTeam is the answer to that question.

Michael Cooper is on the cutting edge of coaching in South Africa. He is a Certified Meta-Coach and is the South African regional director of the MCF (Meta-Coach Foundation). His background is diverse including IT Systems, Project Management and training. After working for a large Corporates for a number of years he has worked as a consultant, trainer and coach. He is also a very experienced and entertaining speaker. His coaching clients include CEO´s, Directors and managers from major companies in South Africa. He has also spent the last two years researching with his business partner Tim Goodenough the mental side of sports in South Africa. They have interviewed numerous of South Africa´s past and current sporting heroes. From these interviews they have built a coaching model for all elite athletes.

Tim Goodenough is a Certified Meta-Coach and holds a trainers qualification in both NLP and Neuro-Semantics. He is a member of the MCF. He was the full time Mental Coach for the Sharks in the 2008 Super 14 competition. Before that he worked at Standard Bank as the Senior Manager for Talent Support in Personal and Business Banking and was part of the Leadership Development, Coaching & Mentoring Unit. Tim looked after Executive Coaching and Mentoring for Personal and Business Banking, as well as designing coaching and mentoring workshops, facilitating coaching and mentoring workshops and training and assessing external facilitators. Tim sat on the Standard Bank coaching accreditation panel. Tim specializes in working with Elite Athletes and is currently the resident Mental Toughness Coach for the Investec international rugby academy which is lead by Dick Muir locally and Murray Mexted internationally.